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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: Use of scanners on SVR4
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.215031.27792@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 21:50:31 GMT
- References: <1992Aug13.151957.4186@netnews.whoi.edu>
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- Reply-To: davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
- Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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- In article <1992Aug13.151957.4186@netnews.whoi.edu>, gie@charon.er.usgs.gov (Gerald I. Evenden) writes:
- | Has anyone installed and used a scanner, such as HP's ScanJet, on a
- | [3|4]86 system with Dell's SVR4 and Merge to handle vendor supplied DOS
- | interfacing to the scanner?
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- I briefly used some DOS software with an Epson 3000C and ran it under
- merge in Dell. I confess that I used the SCO merge manual to figure out
- the options to allow the software to diddle the ports directly, but the
- point is that it worked. I finally gave up and ran windows just to do
- the scanning, because the DOS software was really bad, and the Windows
- based software is mediocre.
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- Someone indicated that they were working on a drive for this in SCSI
- mode, and when that happens I intend to write some software to do the
- scan. I'll probably write it in PPM format and pop a window with xli or
- some such to show it, then diddle the params and rescan as needed. No
- fancy sliders and stuff in the first pass, but I really want it to work
- and don't mind a command line interface.
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
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